New York · Private foundation
The Stefany and Simon Bergson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $881k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $253,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 54
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The Stefany and Simon Bergson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 49 | $829k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $481k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $457k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $390k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $310k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $492k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust | $723,755 | 6 | 3% |
| Washington University | $330,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation | $308,632 | 5 | 29% |
| Northwestern University | $183,420 | 6 | 0% |
| Jcc Rockland Inc | $104,150 | 6 | 0% |
| Reform Temple of Rockland | $97,581 | 6 | n/a |
| Harlem Stage Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $43,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Horace Mann School | $43,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Center for Jewish History Inc | $41,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 75 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($627k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Stefany and Simon Bergson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Chazen Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Josephs Family Foundation Inc · Harry Donenfeld Foundation Inc · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
Compare The Stefany and Simon Bergson Foundation with peer funders
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About The Stefany and Simon Bergson Foundation
- How much does The Stefany and Simon Bergson Foundation give?
- The Stefany and Simon Bergson Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $880,730 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 54 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Stefany and Simon Bergson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), International (13%), Education (13%).
- Who are The Stefany and Simon Bergson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust ($724k), Washington University ($330k), The Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation ($309k).
- Does The Stefany and Simon Bergson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Stefany and Simon Bergson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Stefany and Simon Bergson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Chazen Foundation.
- Where is The Stefany and Simon Bergson Foundation based?
- The Stefany and Simon Bergson Foundation is based in NY.
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